There are disagreements among US President Donald Trump’s followers on whether the US should help Israel in its strike on Iran or refrain from joining it. After meeting with his national security advisers in the White House Situation Room on Tuesday, the Republican president is thinking of assisting in the attack on the nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic.
Trump said that Iran “can’t have a nuclear weapon” while frequently denouncing “stupid endless wars” in the Middle East throughout the campaign. The hawkish and isolationist factions of his party are fiercely opposed to one another because of the potential for him to involve the US in yet another foreign conflict.
Trump’s Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is one of many who have voiced scepticism over Iran’s nuclear aspirations. In a March congressional testimony, Gabbard stated that although Iran’s enriched uranium was at an all-time high, experts did not think the country was developing a nuclear weapon.
Additionally, Gabbard uploaded a video on June 10th, three days before Israeli strikes on Iran started, warning that “political elite and warmongers” were “carelessly fomenting fear and tensions” that might bring the world “on the brink of nuclear annihilation. According to US news agency Politico, Gabbard’s video and earlier remarks caused a divide with Trump, who “became incensed” by the footage.
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